Biology (MindTap Course List)
Biology (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 31.2, Problem 3C
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To describe: The way in which the lifestyle of a gastropod differs from that of a cephalopod.

Introduction: The Lophotrochozoa is one of the two major classes of protozoans that include the bilateral animals. They are triploblastic animals and most of them have a true coelom and a tube-within-a-tube body plan. The Lophotrochozoa include the platyhelminthes (flatworms), rotifers, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, and lophophorate phyla. Mollusks are divided into four clades, namely chitons, gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods.

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To identify: Adaptations that have evolved in gastropods and cephalopods for its particular lifestyle.

Introduction: The Lophotrochozoa is one of the two major classes of protozoans that include the bilateral animals. They are triploblastic animals and most of them have a true coelom and a tube-within-a-tube body plan. The Lophotrochozoa include the platyhelminthes (flatworms), rotifers, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, and lophophorate phyla. Mollusks are divided into four clades, namely chitons, gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods.

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